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C-I:r-1 REPORT To the Mayor and Members of the City Council and Redevelopment Agency Board From the City Manager and Executive Director August 11, 2003 Subject: Amendment to Urban Planning and Urban Design Assistance Contract for Streetscape Design Work. Recommendation: Approve amendment to Contract for Urban Planning and Urban Design Assistance with Freedman, Tung & Bottomley to incorporate design of Theater Way and other areas of Streetscape adjacent to the Retail /Cinema Project and for continuing design review of downtown projects; and authorize appropriation of $100,000 from the Redevelopment Agency's unappropriated fund balance. Background: As the process of designing Theater Way (between the Retail /Cinema Project and the Fox Theater) began it became apparent that a special design for this area was needed. Michael Freedman of Freedman Tung & Bottomley (FTB) was brought in to do the design of Theater Way and other streetscape areas around the project and to assist with design review of the project. Mr. Freedman and his firm conducted three joint City Council /Planning Commission /ARC study sessions to review the project design, Theater Way design, and the design of other project streetscape areas. Because there was an existing contract with FTB for downtown design work, and to avoid delaying the project, this FTB work was charged to that existing contract. It is now apparent that using the general downtown design contract for this work will exhaust the funding available under that contract and preclude design assistance to other areas of downtown. Analysis: To preserve the ability to provide for FTB to provide design assistance on other areas of downtown, including Block Two and the Depot Circle concept, staff recommends approval of an amendment to the existing Contract for Urban Planning and Urban Design Assistance and an appropriation of an additional